{"id":322795,"date":"2025-11-30T18:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/322795\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T18:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:23:08","slug":"what-to-know-as-myles-garrett-pursues-nfls-single-season-sacks-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/322795\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know as Myles Garrett pursues NFL\u2019s single-season sacks record"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Athletic has live coverage of NFL Week 13<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett is chasing history. Last week, he became the first player since sacks became an official statistic to reach 18 through 11 games.<\/p>\n

As Garrett\u2019s pursuit of the NFL\u2019s single-season record of 22 1\/2 continues with six games remaining, he considers it a foregone conclusion that he\u2019ll break the record currently shared by Michael Strahan and T.J. Watt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t even think about (the record) as a want \u2014 I just think about it as something that I\u2019m going to knock down,\u201d Garrett said. \u201cIt\u2019s already been written in my mind that it\u2019s going (down). It\u2019s just how far I\u2019m going to take it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garrett wouldn\u2019t share his intended or targeted sack total, but said he\u2019ll wear that number on his wrist tape Sunday when the Browns (3-8) host the San Francisco 49ers (8-4).<\/p>\n

Garrett has 13 sacks over his last four games. He had three of the Browns\u2019 10 sacks last week to reach 18 on the season and break his own franchise record of 16 set in both 2021 and 2022. Garrett is just the third player in NFL history to have 16 or more sacks in three different seasons, joining J.J. Watt and Reggie White.<\/p>\n

With the Browns jumping out to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter last week en route to a 24-10 win over the Las Vegas Raiders, Garrett got the rare opportunity to spend most of the game in attack mode. He\u2019s continued to wreck games and opponents\u2019 game plans despite the Browns\u2019 offensive struggles this season. Browns defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz said he believes Garrett deserves consideration for NFL MVP, not just his second Defensive Player of the Year award.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a voter. I don\u2019t really know what goes into all those things, (but) I think you\u2019d be hard pressed to find a more valuable player in the NFL,\u201d Schwartz said. \u201cYou know, Myles had five sacks in one game, four sacks in another, a bunch of tackles for losses, really dominating play and didn\u2019t win those (player of the week) awards because we had lost the game, probably.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe won this last one, he won (AFC Defensive Player of the Week for Week 12) \u2014 so winning certainly has a lot to do with it. But you know, when you\u2019re talking about most valuable player, it\u2019s tough to keep him out of that conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The last player to win Defensive Player of the Year on a team with a losing record was Miami\u2019s Jason Taylor in 2006. No defensive player has been named NFL MVP since Lawrence Taylor in 1986. With his sixth consecutive season of at least 12 sacks, Garrett earlier this month passed Taylor\u2019s previous record streak of five such seasons.<\/p>\n

Garrett now has 120 1\/2 sacks over his nine-year career. Only White (137) had more in his first nine seasons. Earlier this season, Garrett surpassed White for the most sacks recorded by a player before his 30th birthday.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Garrett\u2019s primary matchup will be with 49ers left tackle Trent Williams, a four-time All-Pro. Garrett said Williams, 37, is \u201cstill playing at an elite level\u201d and that he loves the challenge of competing against a player with whom he\u2019ll almost certainly one day share space in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In California last week, Williams told reporters that Garrett \u201cis one of the best to ever play. He has no weaknesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems unlikely that Garrett would get five sacks versus Williams and the 49ers to break the single-season record, but considering Garrett\u2019s current pace, anything is possible.<\/p>\n

Garrett said he also knows the single-season tackles for loss record is 39 and that he wants to break that, too. He enters Sunday\u2019s game with 26, one short of J.J. Watt\u2019s record for most tackles for loss in the first 12 games of a season (27, 2012).<\/p>\n

After Garrett made a public trade demand in February, then signed an extension that included more than $122 million in guaranteed money in March, Schwartz said he expected Garrett to have his best year in 2025. And though it\u2019s been another disappointing season for the Browns, Garrett continues to produce big numbers and build upon the type of season Schwartz predicted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve talked at length about Myles \u2014 and deservedly so,\u201d Browns coach Kevin Stefanski said. \u201cAnd the thing I would point out, and I keep saying it (because) I hope someone\u2019s pointing it out, is (Garrett\u2019s) run defense. It definitely gets less of the attention, but he\u2019s a well-rounded player. He\u2019s an elite player. \u2026 It\u2019s not like he\u2019s just rushing the passer. He\u2019s playing the run, he\u2019s doing anything and everything to help this team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletic has live coverage of NFL Week 13. Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett is chasing history.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[1799,349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-322795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-cleveland-browns","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}